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For those that missed it in the other blog, my former band had a reunion to headline at festival out in the country yesterday.
The 15 acres or so were littered with tents and campsites of the partygoers, as it is encouraged to stay as opposed to leaving after a whole day of sun, drinking, and exhaustion.
It is an opportunity for me to see a lot of ole familiar faces that I generally dont get a chance to get together with throughout the year. This one was no disappointment in that homecoming effect.
Mid day, things were parlayed by the usual afternoon shower, which blew over and things recommenced.
2 more bands played , then we were up, with the crowd primed in full form Throughout the day, I had talked with strangers in the crowd, to find out it had really been played up about this last band being a literal walk-on, one member flying in from Maine, another from Cali, another from NorthCarolina, and the other from a neighboring county, and were just gonna take the stage with no rehearsal. It was fun to watch their faces when we were about to play and they found out I was one of the members.
The all day multi-band fiesta is motivated by the proprietor's wifes bday. One of my other bandmates had bought a lil Fender Squire, and put our logo on it, and we all signed it and presented it to her about halfway thru the set. Terry got emotional and teared up, indicating that we had done a good thing, and of course got the crowd more infused.
By this time it was dark, and we were able to enjoy the effect of the stage lighting, where the landscape disappeared and we could see nothing but people.
We had opened up with 2 Dio tunes as a tribute to his passing, which pretty much knocked em back on their heels and set the tone for the rest of the night, with them getting more pumped up with every song.
Despite the ordinance curfew we wound up doing one encore and the big finale, ending to that ole familiar roar of an electric crowd.
The rest of the evening was an ocean of adulation, high ^5s, hugs, posing with folks for their phone pics, and even a few autographs lol, which I thought was kinda funny. But it was very redeeming, to have the noddling approval of my musican peers and the "holy shit" of first timers, and would seem that we have renewed our place in local imortality
